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Doug Richardson
Doug Richardson

Reputation: 10811

How to disable git colors using an environment variable?

Is there a way to disable git colors using an environment variable?

Background

Normally when I run git, I want the output colorized. Therefore, my .gitconfig has:

[color]
        ui = auto

However, when running git from within a gVim terminal, the colors don't are hard to read. I would like to disable the colors only when running from a gVim terminal, and I could do this by setting an environment variable if one exists.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 402

Answers (2)

romainl
romainl

Reputation: 196476

You can simply change GVim's terminal colors with g:terminal_ansi_colors variable, the value of which is expected to be a list of 16 hexadecimal colors, corresponding to the 16 so-called "ANSI colors":

let g:terminal_ansi_colors = [
    \ '#1c1c1c',
    \ '#af5f5f',
    \ '#5f875f',
    \ '#87875f',
    \ '#5f87af',
    \ '#5f5f87',
    \ '#5f8787',
    \ '#6c6c6c',
    \ '#444444',
    \ '#ff8700',
    \ '#87af87',
    \ '#ffffaf',
    \ '#8fafd7',
    \ '#8787af',
    \ '#5fafaf',
    \ '#ffffff',
    \ ]

The value above is taken from my colorscheme; feel free to use whatever works for you.

Upvotes: 1

Doug Richardson
Doug Richardson

Reputation: 10811

GIT_CONFIG_PARAMETERS="'color.ui=never'"

While I have not found documentation for this, it is covered by a git test case here:

test_expect_success 'GIT_CONFIG_PARAMETERS handles old-style entries' '
    v="${SQ}key.one=foo${SQ}" &&
    v="$v  ${SQ}key.two=bar${SQ}" &&
    v="$v ${SQ}key.ambiguous=section.whatever=value${SQ}" &&
    GIT_CONFIG_PARAMETERS=$v git config --get-regexp "key.*" >actual &&
    cat >expect <<-EOF &&
    key.one foo
    key.two bar
    key.ambiguous section.whatever=value
    EOF
    test_cmp expect actual

Upvotes: 1

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